Big talk

President Obama is currently giving his prime time press conference focused on health care reform - aka health security.

From the dishonest (or stupid) reporter desk, ABC's Jake Tapper, and then a guy pretending to be Stephen Koff of the Cleveland Plain Dealer (yeah, the President called on Koff - who he obviously didn't know personally, but since the President is visiting the Mayo Clinic tomorrow, he was giving a local guy the chance to ask a question - but some other dude on the other side of the room stood up and asked him a question; I think there's a reporter that's never going to get to ask another question), both press the President on the idea that the government plan is going to ration or deprive Americans of health care to which they'd otherwise be entitled.

Someone needs to clarify to these guys - who reflect little more than the know-nothingness of celebrity journalism - that the proposal on the table is not a single-payer, government rationed health care plan. It is a government option, as an alternative to the stubbornly inefficient private insurance run health care system. Private insurance policies are not eliminated under any of the proposals; if an individual or an employer decides that a private insurance plan is better for them, they are free to choose the private insurance plan. Pick what you prefer.

Or, to put it into language that our media overlords can understand, the principle is to offer more choices, not fewer.

Even worse, in NBC's post-game, David Gregory is now saying the President needs to answer that rationing question, to address what Americans are going to have to give up as a result of health insurance reform.

Hacks.